20 months and counting!

Where to begin? Again it has been way to long since my last post. This time I'm gonna be honest with myself (and you) and I'm not going to claim I will get better with posting because obviously its not gonna happen.

 Makenna is almost 21 months now. 21 months. Seriously?! Where did that time go? I am with her pretty much 24/7 and I feel like it is flying by way to fast. Sometimes I feel like I have a 2-3 year old, not a one year old. She is a major talker. She will attempt to say anything we ask her to, and almost nails it the first try. She is getting better each day with her phrases. Sometimes she says stuff that I didnt even know she knew. Its amazing what their little brains pick up. Here are a few of our mini convos...

Makenna: "Mommmmmm!?" pause "Mommmmmmyyyyy?"
Me: "What punkin?"
Makenna: "Are you?" (where are you)
Me: "In the kitchen...where are you?" (she is often in the play room, the next room over...I of course know where she is :o)
Makenna: "I coming"

Or when she first saw the new paint in her play room. Let me set the scene...we are walking down the steps in the morning and she looks up and sees a bright blue wall in front of her.

Makenna: "oh noooo. Happen?"
Me: " its ok, Mommy painted last night, do you like it?" at this point we are at the bottom of the steps, she can see the whole room.
Makenna "woahhhhhh. I yike it"

I know there are a ton more mini convos that go on during the day. I am just having a brain fart.

20 month Makenna in a nut shell?

• Loves to take showers, prefers them over baths. She stands under the water, rinses her hair, washes her body with soap. And she is a MAJOR water hog.
• Just learned (today) how to go down the slide on her butt instead of on her belly, feet first. 
• Loves Bubble Guppies (Guppies), Mickey Mouse Club House (she knows all the characters including the wonderful Alpo (Pluto), Team Umizoomi, Little Einsteins (Rocket)  Jake and the Neverland Pirates (Jake). Any time one of these show ends she says "ohhh noooo. Wha Appened? All gone!" 
• Loves drama. Yes, already. She fakes injuries. I (obviously) am not a fan of this one. Whenever she is upset she will say "oww boo boo" and grab her hand while crying. Dog licks her... "oww boo boo". The worst though was when I was in Target with her, she refused to sit in the cart so I let her walk around with me and kept telling her to stay with Mommy. Usually she is good with it. Usually she gets a nap though, this day, she didnt. She takes off wandering so I nicely tell her if she doesnt stay with me, Ill have to carry her. She yells NO and takes off. I still keep my calm and go pick her up and calmly explain that she cant just take off. Cue the drama! Im pretty sure she could win a Grammy with the performance she put on. She screams, throws her body around and yells "Nooo Mommy!". I just push past it and bee line to the check out hoping she gets over it (she usually does pretty quickly) but of course, that day wasnt usual She starts screaming "OWWW OWWW OWWW BOO BOO!" over and over. Keep in mind, Im not hurting her at all. I wasn't holding her too tight or anything. So here I am standing in like being "that parent" with the screaming kid and even worse looking like I am the awful parent who is hurting there kid. If looks and glares could kill, I woulda been dead that day. Needless to say, this is a problem we are dealing with. She has thankfully gotten a little better.
  
  On the good side of being dramatic...yesterday we were in the car and she was pretending to tickle herself and laughing (not real laughing, pretend laughing) saying "hahaha at tickles hahahaha at tickles" (translate: that tickles)

• She has learned to say I love you. It comes out as "I yove youuuu"

And I am running out of time. Its just about bedtime and she is outside playing with Daddy, I have to go try to convince both of them its time to come in. Not an easy task.

Until next time!